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Sensory Mismatch Key: Know Yourself

December 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Know Yourself

Here’s my third tool for dealing with sensory mismatch in your family, home, school, or work environment. If you’ve missed the first two posts (one, two), check those out first — it may help you […]

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Sensory Mismatch Key: Need Isn’t Behavior

December 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Need Isn’t Behavior

In my last post, I shared the first tool for dealing with sensory mismatch. Today I’ll share another tool. Just like in the last post, some of the things I say in this post may […]

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Sensory Mismatch Key: Escape

December 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch Key: Escape

I have had lots of questions from people about “sensory mismatch” lately. Sensory mismatch is my phrase for it when two (or more) people in the same environment (like home, a classroom, etc) have different […]

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Risky Play: Clipline Zipline

December 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Risky Play: Clipline Zipline

A delightful little example of risky play in action. There are a few different opportunities for kids to play with height in my rooms. This was a really fun, creative one that also worked on […]

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Make A Plan, Write It Down

November 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Make A Plan, Write It Down

I mentioned this idea almost offhandedly in a training recently and it was profoundly exciting to the people in the training— so I’m making it into its own post! Here’s the idea in brief: ask […]

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Packaged Regulation

November 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Packaged Regulation

A lot of public schools in the US, and at least some in the UK near where I live, have begun figuring out how they can teach social-emotional skills and things like self-regulation and coping […]

Activities

X-Ray Car Technician

November 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on X-Ray Car Technician

I love it when kids merge the toys I have at different areas of my room. He merged the car table and my wooden “tools” and began pretending to use a screwdriver and a hammer […]

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Clumsy Self-Advocacy

November 3, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Clumsy Self-Advocacy

Recently I had an OT session with a child who I’ve known for many years. They were unusually irritable and on-edge, and at one point they were so frustrated with what they were trying to […]

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Finding Buried Treasure

November 3, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Finding Buried Treasure

A play invitation from my therapy gym — as part of the child-led exploration of stations in my room during OT time, or for the children who use the therapy gym for other reasons than […]

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Feeling Left Out is the Point

November 3, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Feeling Left Out is the Point

I spoke to my child’s school to tell them that I wanted to opt my child out of their new behavioural manipulation system to the greatest extent possible without singling my child out. They were […]

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